The effects of chlorpromazine, imipramine, thioridazine, chlorprothixene, amitriptyline, desipramine and triflupromazine on adenosylmethionine decarboxylase purified from rat liver have been studied. The compounds caused competitive inhibition of the enzyme at 10(-5) - 10(-3) M concentrations. For chlorprothixene and triflupromazine the inhibition was linear, while the other drugs showed increasing, nonlinear inhibition at higher concentrations. Apparent Ki's for the compounds were between 6.8 X 10(-5) M (for chlorprothixene) and 6.4 X 10(-4) M (for desipramine). Inhibition of 50% under optimal assay conditions was achieved between drug concentrations of 1.3 X 10(-4) M (thioridazine) and 1.3 X 10(-3) M (imipramine).
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